Micah 2

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¹Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. ✦ ²They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. ✦ ³Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time. ✦ ⁴In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’” ✦ ⁵Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in Yahweh’s assembly. ✦ ⁶“Don’t prophesy!” They prophesy. “Don’t prophesy about these things. Disgrace won’t overtake us.” ✦ ⁷Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?” ✦ ⁸But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle. ✦ ⁹You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever. ✦ ¹⁰Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction. ✦ ¹¹If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink”; he would be the prophet of this people. ✦ ¹²I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the middle of their pasture; they will swarm with people. ✦ ¹³He who breaks open the way goes up before them. They break through the gate, and go out. And their king passes on before them, with Yahweh at their head. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Jer 23 ·6 Ps 119 ·4 Mic 3 ·4 Ezek 34 ·4 Hab 2 ·3 Mic 2 ·3 Amos 5 ·3 Zech 10 ·3

Christ at the center

Micah names the town — 'But you, Bethlehem... from you shall come forth one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origins are from of old' — the birthplace of the eternal King.

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CommentaryEnduring Word — Micah 2David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical
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